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The Politics of Pain in Immigration Detention [PDF]
Punishment & Society, 2021 In this paper I draw on qualitative material from the first complete data set of the ‘ Measure of the Quality of Life in Detention’ (MQLD) survey in the UK to reflect on its implication for understanding and challenging these sites. While similarities between immigration detention centres and prisons make it tempting to place the testimonies from ...
Mary Bosworth, Mary Bosworth
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Menstrual Justice in Immigration Detention
Columbia Journal of Gender and Law, 2021 The menstrual injustices experienced by noncitizens detained in immigration facilities – a particularly vulnerable subset of menstruators in carceral spaces – are largely ignored. Menstruating detainees are forced to rely on the immigration system to provide adequate access to menstrual products, and on detention facilities to ...
Gomez, Valeria, Karin, Marcy L.
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Detention of Immigrant Children [PDF]
Pediatrics, 2017 This Policy Statement was reaffirmed November 2022. Immigrant children seeking safe haven in the United States, whether arriving unaccompanied or in family units, face a complicated evaluation and legal process from the point of arrival through permanent resettlement in communities.
Julie M. Linton +12 more
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Immigration Detention, Inc. [PDF]
Journal on Migration and Human Security, 2018 This article addresses the influence of economic inequality on immigration detention. The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) detains roughly 350,000 migrants each year and maintains more than 30,000 beds each day. This massive detention system raises issues of economic power and powerlessness.
Luis A. Romero, Denise L. Gilman
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Immigration detention: An Anglo model [PDF]
Migration Studies, 2018 Over the last twenty-five years, immigration detention policies and practices have proliferated around the globe. We look at four liberal democratic countries with the largest immigration detention systems—Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States—and identify components of an immigration detention policy ‘package’ as well as ...
Mainwaring, Cetta, Cook, Maria L.
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Immigration Detention and the Coloniality of Gender
Mélanges de la Casa de Velázquez, 2021 In the past few decades, as some scholars have pointed out, «borders and borderings have moved from the margins into the centre of political and social life». As a consequence, a growing body of scholarship has been produced in this field, thus highlighting the interconnections between mechanisms of migration control and everyday processes of ...
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Immigration detention and health [PDF]
Medical Journal of Australia, 2010 On health grounds, immigration detention should be used in very limited ways Like all rich nations, Australia has experienced an increase in people crossing its national borders without the documents authorising them to do so. Since 1992, Australia has had a policy of mandatory detention for these people.
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Immigration Detention and Proportionality [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2011 Migration-related detention – or the detention of non-citizens because of their status – is intimately associated with incarceration, raising questions about whether this form of detention is proportionate to the administrative aims of immigration policy.
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Affect and authority in immigration detention [PDF]
Punishment & Society, 2018 Drawing on a long-term research project across a number of British Immigration Removal Centres (IRCs), this article considers the relationship between authority and affect. In contrast to much criminological literature on the prison, which advances a liberal political account in which power is constantly negotiated and based on mutual recognition, in ...
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Alternatives to Immigration Detention
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2017 The United States places over 440,000 people each year in immigration detention, far more than any other country in the world. This Article argues that there are compelling humanitarian and financial reasons to utilize more alternatives to detention. It examines the strengths and limitations of existing alternatives, including the need to develop more ...
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